Rescuing CalCOFI Monterey Bay, 1951 – 1974

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Abstract: In 1951, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University (HMS) became an official component in the developing California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) program to collect oceanographic data in Monterey Bay. Hopkins staff conducted weekly sampling (more or less) continuously from March 1951 through June 1974. The aim of the program was to conduct joint fisheries-oceanographic cruises that would help researchers understand what contributed to the crash of the sardine fishery in the California Current. The HMS CalCOFI dataset is an extremely important contribution to early oceanographic research in the Northeast Pacific Ocean, and extends our observations in this area decades into the past. After the end of the program in 1974, the logbooks, raw data and formal reports sat quietly in the library at HMS. In 2017, a majority of these materials were digitized and made available as images and PDFs in the Stanford Digital Repository. Our efforts have now shifted toward extracting the most important observational data from the scans so they can be shared as actionable datasets. This poster summarizes the dataset and our work to make these critical data available for researchers.

Author	Whitmire, Amanda	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2429-8879 (unverified)

Subject	CalCOFI
Subject	data rescue
Subject	data curation
Subject	California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (Program)
Genre	Image
Genre	Poster
Genre	Documentation
Genre	Posters

Related item	Title CalCOFI poster from 2016 data rescue workshop
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/jx225zq1407

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Preferred citation: Whitmire, Amanda. (2020). Rescuing CalCOFI Monterey Bay, 1951 – 1974. Stanford Digital Repository. Poster, presented at the 2020 CalCOFI Conference. https://purl.stanford.edu/jx225zq1407

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